A Life Debt Repaid

Chapter 125

Cousin?!

Cordy flinched while she was still in John’s arms, and he clearly felt her move!

“Come here,” John then told Zoe.

Zoe did so tentatively with an unsteady gait. Though her cheeks were flushed from alcohol, she looked utterly afraid, like a child about to ask their parents for forgiveness.

“Sorry, I didn’t mean to interrupt you making out,” she said with a wounded tone. “I just needed to pee.”

On the other hand, although Cordy had been resistant toward being intimate with John, she was left so utterly awkward she buried her head within John’s embrace, too ashamed to show her face. John certainly knew that Cordy was embarrassed, but he was not letting her off the hook either. He pressed, “And what do you call my grandfather?”

“John, you’re scaring me.” Zoe’s pupils were dilating–did he somehow lose every bit of intelligence from making out?!

Still, seeing the serious look from her cousin, she had to answer honestly. “Grandfather.”

face, “So? Do you understand the connection between me and Zoe

bit her. Still, she

my birth certificate as well, Ms. Sachs?” John asked

even as Zoe was left

gotten into you two?”

misunderstood that

as he suddenly felt a

up from his chest, her eyes pleading

more than

it on her palm along with his warmth–as if she

quickly withdrew her hand from his lips, Zoe was perplexed by their

You can go now,” John told

that–was she supposed

John said then, his tone a

without saying that Zoe was scared of him,